Word: undo
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...beautiful tenor solo from Mendelssohn's "Hymn of Praise," sung by Mr. Ricketson, then followed. Rev. Dr. Gordon read from the twelfth chapter of the Epistle to the Hebrews, and on this based his address, on "The Irremediableness of Sin." However good repentance may be, it can never undo the past. Every act remains as a record. How deeply soever we may regret squandered riches, overtasked strength, neglected opportunities, as Esau regretted his pledged birthright and Paul his misdirected zeal. yet the objects of our regret remain as facts. But repentance can be of use here. It may raise...
...City, he found his desire for spiritual work increased until his whole soul became fired with holy passion. From Rome under papal protection he went to his work in Germany. There, with indefatigable industry and love, he pushed his-noble work which took eight centuries and a Luther to undo. He became arch-bishop and papal legate. From his home in Britain came zealous men and women to aid him in his work. At last he fell a victim to his ideal and died a martyr's death, killed by the men he was attempting to save...
...must impersonate; you must not recite. It has been the custom in England to demand a false inflection in tragedy, while naturalism is demanded in comedy. It is not the measured recitation of a long speech, but a short sentence which is often the more effective. Garrick's, 'Prithee, undo this button,' was remembered long after his more stately passages were forgotten. The actor who relaxes from a natural to an artificial tone loses force. To be natural on the stage is more difficult, but a grain of nature is worth a bushel of artifice. Nature may be overdone...
...Fresh Pond water, so is Cambridge. For this we can not be too thankful. It has taken our university centuries to grow to what it is, and it looks forward to a greater and even greater prosperity ; yet the slightest taint-even the suspicion of an unhealthful location-could undo the slow work of centuries, and Harvard's prospect of soon becoming the university of America would be ruined...
...spirit of the times. So that however original an instructor's notion about the Classics, for instance, may be, he has at least a foundation to stand upon. Not so in German. Here every new instructor has, or thinks he has, for a year or more to undo the work of his predecessor; for another year to try his own experiments; and any thing like a system is adopted only after he has had a course or a class for at least two years. This is, in substance, the history of German instruction in Harvard. And precisely herein is found...